Human Rights Day At Conard

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Logan Singerman, Speakers' Bureau Coordinator at Faces of Homelessness, a public education program that works to promote advocacy, understanding, and service for the homeless, talks to students at Conard high School during a full day of presentations in honor of Human Rights Day Thursday. Speakers in the Bureau have experienced or are experiencing homelessness and are the real experts on homeless issues. In this session they will speak about the fight to end homelessness.

Logan Singerman, Speakers' Bureau Coordinator at Faces of Homelessness, a public education program that works to promote advocacy, understanding, and service for the homeless, talks to students at Conard high School during a full day of presentations in honor of Human Rights Day Thursday. Speakers in the Bureau have experienced or are experiencing homelessness and are the real experts on homeless issues. In this session they will speak about the fight to end homelessness. (John Woike / Hartford Courant)

Gerard Rioux and Lakia Lightner, both of Manchester, were just another face in the crowd except that they were at Conard High School Thursday to talk about homelessness. Both have been homeless at some point in their lives and spoke to the students iduring a full day of presentations in honor of Human Rights Day. Both are with The Faces of Homelessness Speakers' Bureau, a public education program that works to promote advocacy, understanding, and service.

Gerard Rioux and Lakia Lightner, both of Manchester, were just another face in the crowd except that they were at Conard High School Thursday to talk about homelessness. Both have been homeless at some point in their lives and spoke to the students iduring a full day of presentations in honor of Human Rights Day. Both are with The Faces of Homelessness Speakers' Bureau, a public education program that works to promote advocacy, understanding, and service. (John Woike / Hartford Courant)